Valentine's butter biscuits
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Valentine's butter biscuits
- Prep time:
- 20 mins, plus 15 mins chilling
- Cook time:
- 25 mins
- Serves:
- Makes about 15
Show someone you love them with Eleanor Smallwood's crumbly heart shaped biscuits
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Ingredients
- 150g Butter, at room temperature
- 75g caster sugar
- 225g plain flour
To decorate
- icing sugar
- edible glitter
- sugar roses
Method
1. Dice the butter into a big bowl. Tip in the flour, sugar and a pinch of salt. Gently rub in the butter with your fingertips and bring the dough together into a ball. Wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for 15 minutes.2. Preheat the oven to 170Cgas 4.
3. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and roll to about ½ cm thick. Cut out heart shapes with a biscuit cutter and lay on a lined baking sheet. Bake for 15-25 minutes, until light golden. Leave to cool on a rack.
4. To decorate the biscuits, mix together few tablespoons of icing sugar with enough water to make a paste. Spread the icing onto the biscuits, or drizzle over in lattice patterns. You can then dip the biscuits into edible glitter, or use a little icing to glue on sugar roses. Leave to set before eating.
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I used this recipe to make heart shaped cookies for my granddaughter's first birthday. A great success - delicious and easy to make.
I make these biscuits with my son at least once a month. It's a really easy recipe and the biscuits taste great.
i used this recipe tonight but i made them christmasy using christmas cutters. this recipe is really easy to use and doesnt use that much ingredients.